This year in the MidSouth Knitting Guild, the group has been working through the techniques of A Year of Techniques. This month, October, I will be demonstrating the wrap-and-turn techniques for garter stitch, as illustrated in this project.

24 October 2018
I wanted the hat to be done in time to show off the result at a garter wrap & turn workshop that I taught in the local knitting guild on October 22. I failed to meet that deadline, but I taught the class, and finished the hat the next night, October 23. Love it! I will wear it. It’s M.I.N.E.!!!!

I enjoyed knitting with this yarn very much. Since the hat is predominantly garter stitch, it is very squooshy. And as the yarn moved through my hands into my knitting, it was soft and soothing. It felt good, and I would like to knit with Dream in Color Classy again. I found only one place where I felt compelled to cut the yarn. One strand, of many strands, was broken, so I cut and joined in again. That is the only join in the hat.

Later that evening
The photo shoot went down like this:

Me, waving my cell phone around: Hillary, would you take some pictures of me? Wearing my hat?

Daughter, appalled: NO!!!

Me, deciding I had wanted this outcome, from the start, anyways: Would you let me take pictures of you wearing my hat?

And that is how it comes about that Hillary is modeling the finished hat!